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Shameless pensioner falsely claimed £168k in benefits over...
A shameless pensioner claimed £168,593 in benefits she was not entitled to over a 10-year period of lies and deception, a court heard. Khirunissa Daud (73), of Marfitt Street, Belgrave, Leicester,...
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Former model jailed for terrorising suspected love rival during...
A jealous woman punched, kicked and terrorised a suspected love rival after leaving a voicemail message threatening to slash her face and body, a court heard.Gemma Wallace (32) went to the victim's...
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Drunken reveller who broke victim's skull in unprovoked attack...
A drunken reveller who punched a stranger in the street causing "devastating" head injuries has been jailed for 10 months.Reece Lewin (23) was also ordered to pay his victim, who suffered a fractured...
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Speeding driver who caused death of pensioner, 94, on mobility...
A speeding driver who caused the death of a "fiercely independent" 94-year-old man on a mobility scooter has avoided being sent to jail.Nailesh Patel, 35, pleaded guilty to causing the death of Leslie...
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Woman set fire to husband's 12th-storey flat in Leicester's...
A woman set fire to her husband's 12th-storey flat in Leicester's tallest tower block.Charlotte Woolnough-Steers lit items and pushed them through the letterbox while he was out, James Varley,...
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Man who sexually abused schoolgirl jailed for nine years
A man who sexually abused a 10-year-old schoolgirl has been jailed for nine years.Mark David Wilson (49) was convicted by a jury of eight counts of sexually assaulting the girl, between January and...
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Man snared after sending explicit pictures to girl, 13, spared...
A man snared after arranging to meet a 13-year-old to whom he had sent naked pictures of himself has been spared prison.Samuel Clarke, then 21, also had explicit conversations with the girl, an online...
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Cocky teen who drove Audi at 60mph through city said police only...
A student who led the police on a dangerous car chase told them: "You wouldn't have caught me if I hadn't run out of fuel."Said Jama, 19, had a provisional licence and was uninsured when he borrowed a...
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Six men appear in court over Bede Park mass brawl which left man,...
Six men have appeared in court in connection with a mass brawl that left a 21-year-old man with a stab wound.Police have charged a total of 23 men in connection with the fight in Bede Park, West End,...
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Wife's plea: 'Don't jail my husband who tried to kill me'
A husband who attempted to murder his wife, after looting her bank account and pawning her jewellery, was spared jail after a judge was told she did not want him locked up.Retired dentist, Christopher...
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Countless diners 'duped into eating halal lamb which was neither...
A meat company's lucrative scam led to countless consumers being duped into eating what they thought was halal lamb – when it was neither lamb nor halal, a court heard.Owners of restaurants, takeaways...
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Kayleigh Haywood: Man who tried to groom tragic teen days before...
A 20-year-old man who groomed tragic schoolgirl Kayleigh Haywood, a few days before she was raped and murdered by someone else, has been given a three year and seven month detention sentence. Bruce...
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Man threatened to smother woman with a cushion as he raped her
A man raped a woman he knew after calling at her home to return a borrowed top, threatening to smother her with a cushion if she screamed.David Dayman (43) claimed the sex was consensual, saying the...
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'The victim was NOT interested in you', judge tells rapist David...
Sentencing rapist David Dayman, Judge Ebraham Mooncey told him the victim was not interested him - despite his claims otherwise.Dayman (43) was jailed for eight years after being found guilty by a jury...
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Belgrave Road jewellery shop robbers labelled 'amateurish' as...
Three jewellery shop robbers involved in a terrifying armed raid in Leicester's Golden Mile have been jailed for a total of 21 years.They were among a group of five, who travelled from Birmingham, to...
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Halal meat trial: Accused 'would have made at least £250,00...
A meat wholesaler accused of dishonestly selling turkey as halal lamb in a profitable scam told the police that he ran a legitimate company, a court has heard.Mahmudur Rohman (46) claimed he did not...
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Brendan Mason murder trial: Attacker recorded prolonged and fatal...
A man whimpered in pain as he suffered a fatal beating – that one of the attackers recorded on his mobile phone. A court heard Joshua Hack took a close-up of victim Brendan Mason's face during the...
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Thief drove van into police officer while fleeing scene of crime
A thief who drove his van into a police officer while fleeing the scene of a crime has been jailed for four years.Mark Courtney Johnson, 34, revved the engine of his van and knocked down the officer as...
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Brendan Mason murder trial recap: 'We've just kicked someone's...
A pathologist told a murder trial jury that a young man found fatally injured in Abbey Park had suffered extensive brain damage. Consultant pathologist, Dr Stuart Hamilton, said he examined the body of...
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Brendan Mason murder trial: Court hears how men 'boasted to...
Two men boasted to friends about how they kicked, punched and stamped on someone they knew, before leaving him for dead in Leicester's Abbey Park, a murder trial was told. Brendan Mason was found...
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